Daniel snyder and ell wood ivins



D. SNYDER & E. IVI'NS.

(No Model.)

Button Hole Gutter.

Pate'nted M'ai'ch 22,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

DANIEL SNYD AND ELLWOOD IVINS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

ASSIGNORS TO SAID IVINS AND LEWIS D. ZEIGLER, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-HOLE CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,279, dated March 22, 1881.

Application filed J annary 10, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, DANIEL SNYDER and ELLWOOD IVINS, citizens of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Button-Hole-Uutting Attachment for Shears or Scissors. of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a button-hole-cutting device adapted to be attached to one to blade of a pair of shears or scissors, and to cooperate with the other blade in forming the button-hole, the objects of our invention being to provide for the secure attachment of the cutting device to the blade of the scissors or shears in any desired position, and to accurately govern the size of the buttonhole cut by the device.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a pair of scissors with our improved button-hole cutter applied thereto, and Fig. 2 a vertical section of the cutting device drawn to an enlarged scale.

A is a plate, preferably of sheet-steel, and having a sharpened upper edge, a, terminatz5 ing at the end in a pointed projection, b. To

this plate, some distance below the cuttingedge of the same, is secured the upper edge of a plate, B, the lower portion of which is confined to the plate A by means of a thumb- 0 screw, (1, the threaded stem of the latter passing freely through an openingin the plate B, and being adapted to a threaded opening in the plate A; or, if desired, a threaded stem and thumb-nut may replace the thumb-screw.

5 The plates A and B are so shaped as to fit to one of the blades, D, of a pair of scissors, as shown in Fig. 1, and are drawn together by tightening the screw (1, so as to firmly clamp the blade D; or the screw d may be loosened,

in order to permit the adjustment of the plate A to a different position on said blade D,

(No model.)

F is a slotted bar, the upper end, e, of which is inclined and bent inward, so as to form a stop for the blade E of the scissors in cutting, the adjustmentof the inclined edge of 5 the bar in respect to the cutting-edge a of the plate A governing the width of the buttonhole produced by the combined action of said plate and the blade E of the scissors. (See Fig. 1.) The slotted bar is guided by the stem 0 of the screw (1, and by a stud, f, the screw 1! serving to secure the bar in any vertical position to which it may have been adjusted in respect to the plate A. The pointed projection b on the plateA provides a means of accurately determining the location of the cut made by said plate, the point of the projectiou being thrust through the fabric before the cut is made.

YVe claim as our invention- 1. A buttonhole'cutting attachment for scissors or shears, in which the cutting-plate, adapted to be secured to one blade of the scissors orshears, is combined with an adjustable gage lbarradapted to act in conjunction with 63 the other blade, as specified.

2. The combination of the cutting-plate A,

the clamping-plate B, and the slotted gagebar F, with the screw d, serving to confine the bar and clamp the two plates together, as specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribin g witnesses.

DANIEL SNYDER. ELLWOOD lVINES.

- Witnesses:

JAMEs F. TOBIN, HARRY SMITH. 

